Posts Tagged: Beer and Media
One Way To Not Promote Craft Beer All That Well
Posted by on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 in - 6 comments
I was pleased to see Canada's other national newspaper, The National Post, feature some information about craft breweries in Ontario but was a bit saddened to see the odd approach that was chosen - five generic questions leading to an opportunity to trigger five Pavlovian advertising copy …
The "Former" Pete Brown Defines UK's Lager's Fall
Posted by on Sunday, November 8, 2009 in - 2 comments
Two possessives in a headline? Pete wouldn't allow that sort of thing for sure - even if I am a bit puzzled at him having the title of "former beer marketing guru" given that it hovers over his article on UK lager marketing printed in this weekend's Daily Mail. I've jokingly portrayed him as the …
Could The New York Times Please Get A Beer Writer?
Posted by on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 in - 6 comments
I am not going to go off my marbles or anything. And I will not cartoon. No, I will not. But a while ago I was turned off by Eric Asimov - the wine writer for the New York Times - and his tale of how craft beer was becoming legitimate because it could be found in places where he liked the food …
Consider The Word "Undisputed" For A Second
Posted by on Thursday, September 10, 2009 in - 5 comments
It is quite odd what can be thrown about as beer thought on any given day. Consider this: • Mr Protz said that Britain was now the undisputed top brewing country in the world. • Surely a misquote. But there it is in The Times in an article about the newest release of CAMRA's Good Beer Guide …
Thursday Night Trolling The Beer News And Blogs
Posted by on Thursday, August 20, 2009 in - leave a comment
Too lazy and beat to think of something clever to write. Baby. Four letters say so much. So I give you... links: • Perhaps one of the more difficult forms of beer related theft.Backhanded beer compliment of the week. According to the article "Saillard" who is stated to be French says '[i]t's …
So Who Really Should Be Writing About Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, August 16, 2009 in - 10 comments
Stan linked via Twitter via Maureen to one of the oddest bits of beer writing I have ever come across in my years of doing this. It is by a Western Massachusetts based writer George Lenker, who apparently has had a beer column for about as long as I have written this beer blog. Looking at some of …
That Messy Messy Democracy That Is Beer Writing
Posted by on Saturday, August 1, 2009 in - 1 comment
Stan H. and E.S. Delia have both written posts in the last few hours that go to the very heart of beer blogging. Stan's post "The end of beer writing as we know it?" and Mr. Delia's "On Beer Writing" both explore the relationship between blogging - an amateur form of expression - with profession …
"Odour That Is Instinctively Repellent To Women"?
Posted by on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 in - 3 comments
It is good to be a fan of good beer and promote it and all but we still do say silly things some times as this article about a conversation with British beer writer Melissa Cole illustrates: • ...we start with a bottle of Coney Island, by an American brewer called Schmaltz (which also makes …
Review: TAPS Magazine, Summer 2009 Issue
Posted by on Sunday, July 26, 2009 in - 1 comment
Last January, I reviewed the winter issue of Canada's beer quarterly, TAPS magazine. I had some advice and, happily, little complaint but after Troy like any good worker beer announced the next incarnation I thought I should have another look. • TAPS is advancing by leaps as bounds with every …
Geographical Challenges To Blueberriness Claim
Posted by on Thursday, July 16, 2009 in - 4 comments
It is odd how sometimes the Canadian drinks press fails to recognize the rather large neighbo(u)r to the south. In 2007, we learned through the Globe and Mail that pumpkin ales were "another classic" which deserved the revival that an Ontario brewery brought to the style even though there were 150 …
